Mountain Brook Club
The Mountain Brook Club, formerly Mountain Brook Country Club, is a private country club organized in 1929 and opened in 1930. It is partially encircled by Old Leeds Road at the eastern end of Overbrook Road and Cherokee Road. The club's entrance is at 19 Beechwood Road.
The organizing committee which established the club included Morris Bush, David Roberts Jr, Robert Ingalls, J. T. Stokely, John Kaul, William White, Lindley Morton, Erskine Ramsay, Victor Hanson, Alfred Shook Jr, Crawford Johnson, Temple Tutwiler, Thomas Martin, S. L. Yerkes, George Crawford, H. G. Seibels, Robert Jemison Jr, Theodore Swann, William Leary, G. T. Wofford and M. P. Northington. Crawford serves as the club's first president, and was succeeded by Ramsay.
The clubhouse was designed by Aymar Embury II of New York, New York in collaboration with Miller & Martin. It was built in a Greek Revival style with a pale-green paint finish and slate roofing. The ballroom is adorned with murals painted by Anna Girault Farrar Goldsborough (a great grand-niece of Jefferson Davis). The clubhouse opened to members on April 30, 1930.
The club's landscape design was created by William Kessler with civil engineering by J. H. Glander.
Governance of the club was reorganized on July 1, 1939. The present name was adopted at that time.
The current 18-hole Bermuda grass golf course was designed by Donald J. Ross and Associates of Pinehurst, North Carolina. It measures 6,473 yards from the longest tees and plays to a 71 par.
References
- "Mountain Brook Club to Open April 30" (January 1930) Jemison Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 8 - via Birmingham Public Library Digital Collections
- "Southern Hospitality Expressed in The Mountain Brook Country Club at Birmingham Alabama" (1931) Interior Decoration
External links
- Mountain Brook Club website